On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 16:42:11 +0900, > > "Sandro \"red\" Mathys" <red@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> Okay, I poked around in the yum source, yum docs and kernel packages a >> bit. So yum (and some testing confirms, dnf too) does not check the >> package names but the provides (obviously, thinking about it). The >> actual magic being that both kernel and kernel-core provide "kernel". >> If that is still the case once the patch is merged from copr to >> Fedora, no changes to yum or dnf should become necessary. Which would >> probably leave us with "anaconda must allow for installing only just >> kernel-core instead of kernel (when kickstarting)" as the only >> necessary change to Fedora. I guess. > > > The behavior is controlled by the installonlypkgs setting in yum.conf. From > the man page: > > installonlypkgs List of package provides that should only ever > be installed, never updated. Kernels in particular fall > into > this category. Defaults to kernel, kernel-bigmem, > kernel-enter‐ > prise, kernel-smp, kernel-modules, kernel-debug, > kernel-unsup‐ > ported, kernel-source, kernel-devel, kernel-PAE, > kernel-PAE- > debug. > > I believe kernel-modules-extra also got added to the default relatively > recently. But that change doesn't seem to have made it to the documentation. > (That package provides installonlypkgs(kernel-module), so there might be > some extra magic related to that provide.) kernel-modules-extra hasn't been added, but installonlypkgs(kernel-module) has been. Well, at least that's what I see in the current code on git. And kernel-drivers also provides installonlypkgs(kernel-module). -- Sandro _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
